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An alternate text was written by Franz von Gernerth, " Donau so blau " (Danube so blue). "The Blue Danube" premiered in the United States in its instrumental version on 1 July 1867 in New York, and in the UK in its choral version on 21 September 1867 in London at the promenade concerts at Covent Garden. [citation needed]
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J Strauss II made his American debut in Boston on June 17, 1872, conducting The Blue Danube for the World Peace Jubilee. For the occasion, Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, an Irish bandmaster, assembled an orchestra of 2000 and a choir of 20,000.
The Blue Danube, Op. 314, waltz by Austrian composer Johann Strauss the Younger, created in 1867. The work epitomizes the symphonic richness and variety of Strauss’s dance music, which earned him acclaim as the “waltz king,” and it has become the best-known of his many dance pieces.
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May 2, 2024 · The Blue Danube is a piece of music composed by Johann Strauss II in 1866. It is one of the most famous waltzes in the world, and its melody is recognized worldwide. The waltz’s beauty, grace, and elegance are reflected in its tuneful melody and graceful, flowing rhythm.
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Feb 15, 2017 · However, the Männergesang-Verein did not sing: “Danube so blue, so beautiful and blue…” but rather the first text, written by Josef Weyl, deputy police commissioner for the “Wiener Bänkel” genre and poet for the Männergesangverein.
May 30, 2023 · Johann Strauss II (1825-1899), aka Strauss the Younger, was an Austrian composer best known for his waltzes such as The Blue Danube. Famed throughout Europe and the United States in his own lifetime, Strauss was known as the 'Waltz King', but he also wrote many polkas, marches, quadrilles, and operettas such as Die Fledermaus and Der ...
Feb 14, 2017 · An Der Schönen Blauen Donau, which translates from the German as By The Beautiful Blue Danube, was written by Strauss for the tenor and bass sections of the Choral Society, with the words added by the Society’s resident poet, Joseph Weyl.
